R10,199.00
Clemence – Compassion: The Latin root for the word compassion is pati, which means to suffer, and the prefix com- means with.
The connection of suffering with another person brings compassion beyond sympathy into the realm of empathy. However, compassion is much more than empathy. Empathy is an ability to relate to another person’s pain as if it’s your own. Empathy, like sympathy, is grounded in emotion and feeling, but empathy doesn’t have an active component to it.
The component of action is what separates compassion from empathy, sympathy, pity, concern, condolence, sensitivity, tenderness, commiseration or any other compassion synonym.
Compassion gets involved. When others keep their distance from those who are suffering, compassion prompts us to act on their behalf.
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” – Fredrick Buechner
Pencil, water colour and indian ink on textured paper; 760mm W x 590mm H.
Shipping size incl. packaging
Height (CM) = 74
Width / Diameter if cylinder (CM) = 89
Depth / Diameter if cylinder (CM) = 17
Weight = 7kg
1 in stock
‘Round the descending sun
the clouds glowed purple;
summer tints suffused the horizon,
and cast rosy reflections on hillside
Thoughts, borne away by the morning wind,
became a vague murmur
As dawn approached,
the setting stars and breaking day
dimmed my creation of fancy;
the wakened song of birds
revelled in the dewy bloom of morning;
the languid flush of evening,
the changefulness of clouds;
And I found charm
in the substance of compassion’
VaL Smit ©
The Rise and Fall of Hydref (Autumn) 
